MIAMI– Genevieve strengthened into a major hurricane in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday and is expected to intensify well southwest of Mexico, but will remain offshore on a track roughly parallel to the coast. Genevieve had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph), making it a Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane
MIAMI– Hurricane Fausto has strengthened into a Category 2 storm in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to approach the Hawaiian Islands next week, forecasters said. The risk of some wind and rain impacts in the area is increasing, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Friday, but it is too early to determine the
Communities along the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches as Tropical Storm Bertha threatened to bring flooding and high winds Wednesday from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana. Bertha was forecast to make landfall Wednesday night in the sparsely populated coastal part of Louisiana southeast of New Orleans, with wind the biggest threat, according
In early July 2026, for the second time in three months, a powerful typhoon crossed the United States Northern Mariana Islands and Guam in the North Pacific Ocean. Super Typhoon Bavi reached its peak intensity as it approached the islands on the night of July 5, bringing winds of 290 kilometers (180 miles) per hour,
Residents of Guam and surrounding U.S. island territories in the western Pacific were urged to seek shelter as Super Typhoon Bavi was expected to make landfall early Monday, threatening an area still recovering from another destructive storm earlier this year. Bavi, a huge cyclone approaching the Mariana Islands east of the Philippines, is forecast to
HONOLULU– Residents of U.S. territories in the western Pacific were bracing Friday for a possible super typhoon, just months after the region was hit by Earth’s strongest tropical cyclone this year. Power has yet to be fully restored to the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands after super typhoon, Sinlaku, brought fierce winds and